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Professor of Art
Bio: DB Dowd is a professor of Ccommunication Design and American Culture Studies. He holds a joint appointment in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts and the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University.
Dowd's research interests include his work as a designer, illustrator and cartoonist at Ulcer City Studio. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dowd is also active as a curator, essayist and critic in the realm of modern graphic culture, writing on theoretical and historical topics in comics, animation, and illustration. He writes the blog Graphic Tales and serves as an advisor to the Norman Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Dowd recently co-edited Strips, Toons & Bluesies: Essays on Comics and Culture (2006) for Princeton Architectural Press and served as a curator for Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960, which debuted at the Rockwell in 2007. Originally trained as a printmaker, Dowd's books and prints are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, among many others.
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| E-mail: | dbdowd22@wustl.edu |
| Address: | Campus Box 1031
Once Brookings Drive
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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Education:
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M.F.A. in Printmaking at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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B.A. in History at Kenyon College
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WUSTL exhibitions open Modern Graphic History Library
Nov. 1,
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The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the University Libraries' Department of Special Collections will launch the new Modern Graphic History Library with a pair of exhibitions that open Friday, Nov. 16. "Highlights from the Modern Graphic History Library" will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m. in Olin Library's Ginkgo Reading Room & Grand Staircase Lobby. A reception for "Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women's Magazine, 1940-1960" will immediately follow at 7 p.m. in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
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The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics
Two exhibitions and accompanying book trace development and evolution of comics form beginning Oct. 1
Sept. 8,
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There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and '70s and the literary alternative comics of today.
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An Evening with Charles Burns and Gary Panter Sept. 27
Avant garde comic book artists speak as part of St. Louis Comic Art Show
Sept. 22,
2003 -- The Washington University Gallery of Art will host An Evening With Comic Artists Charles Burns and Gary Panter at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in Steinberg Auditorium.
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